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Supplementary 
TRepublican Heit^Book, 

Congressional Campaign, 
1906. 




Cbe Republican Party and tbe Colored man 



Published by authority of the 

Republican Inter-State League. 

Headquarters: 1700 Vermont Ave,, N. W., 

Washington, D. C. Phone North 911. 




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Copyright, 1906, by W. H. Sykes and H. A. Clarke. 






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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
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SEP 25 1906 

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'^'HE publication of this pamphlet was aathorized by the Republican 
^^ Inter-State League, which is composed of colored Republicans 
from various States in the Union. The object and purpose of this 
work is to place before the colored voters facts why they should cast 
their votes for the Republican candidates in the approaching congres- 
sional election, and the Republican candidates in State and municipal 
contests; to impress upon the colored citizens in the doubtful States and 
close congressional districts, the importance of working for the success of 
Republican candidates, and to encourage them to study the questions of 
public concern that arise from time to time, to be voted upon by the 
electors. : : : j : t j : : : ; : : 




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Hon. James S. Sherman of New York, 
Chairman Republican Congressional Committee. 




Hon. Henry C. Loudenslager of New Jersey, 
Secretary Republicqn Congressional Commiiitee. 



All men up, rather than some men dozvn." 

•President THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 




President of the United States. 



The World' s TecLcemaKsr^ and the 
People'^ Champion. 



The administration of the affair's of state since President Roose- 
velt's Inauguration, should be indorsed by the people at the Con- 
gressional election. The unbounded prosperity of the American 
people is unprecedented, and the equitable and just administration of 
the federal laws, free from corporate influence and control, has not 
been equaled in the past administrations of the Republican or the 
Democratic party. The confidence existing during his predecessor's 
unexpired tefm, which he so courageoush', energetically, consistently 
and honestly carried out still dwells in the hearts of the people. There 
never lived in this country, a man whom the people relied upon for a 
"Square Deal," as they do the present incumbent of the White House. 
Some men are born great, great the}- will forever be ; others are appar- 
ently great, but great they will never be. Tho^e who are born great 
develop their greatness as nature develops an infant until it reaches 
maturity. When once greatness is developed, every act whether com- 
mitted hourly or daily, or whether its consummation requires a life 
time stands preeminently in bold relief above everything that is narrow 
or small. Those who are apparently great spring up spontaneously 



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from the confines of solitude, and spread their brilliant lustre fof a 
time, only to be submerged in the narrowness or smallness that is 
the true character'istic of the man. In the World's History there are 
aomparatively only a few men who may be classed as great men. 
The.odore Roosevelt is one who is justly entitled to this distinction. 
He is uncompromisingly opposed to wrong, and unalterably in favor 
of right; he believes in the uplifting and elevation of man. r'egardless 
of race, nationality or creed, and stands for Republican principles and 
policies as comprehended by Lincoln and Grant ; he is an exponent of 
high ideals, and has undoubtedly been endowed by destiny with the 
essential elements that constitute a great man ; he is the product of 
hard, diligent, earnest and consistent work, with right as his pilot, and 
since his advent into the ranks of the Republican party, he has not 
permitted sinster and ulterior motives to cause him to depart from 
what he considered his duty. 





Hon. W11.UAM Loi;b, Jr., of New York. 
Secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt. 



"If ive command our wealth, we sJiall be rich and free. * >i< * 
If our wealth commands us, zee are poor indeed/' 

—President THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 



E^jctract^s from 

Tresident ^oosex^ett's Letter 
To ^ep, Jame^ E. Watson^ of Indiana^ 

August IS, 1906. 



"To change the leadership and organization of the House at this 
time means to bring confusion upon those who have been successfully- 
engaged in the siteady working out of a great and comprehensive 
scheme for the betterment of our social, industrial, and civic condi- 
tions. Such a change would substitute a purposeless confusion, a 
violent and hurtful oscillation between the positions of the extreme 
radical and the extreme reactionary for the present orderly progress 
along the lines of a carefully thought-out policy." 

"The digging of the Panama Canal is the colossal engineering 
feat of all the ages. No task as great of the kind has ever been un- 
dertaken by any other nation." 

"If the American people desire the Panama Canal to be built in 
speedy and efficient fashion, they should uphold the hands of those 
who, in the present Congress, have so effectively championed this 
work." 

"We are anxious to help alike by law and by executive action, so 
far as in our power lies, every honest man, every right-minded labor 
union, and for the matter of that, say, right-dealing corporation. But 
as a corollary to this we intend fearlessly and resolutely to uphold the 
law and to strengthen it so that we can put down wrong, whether 
done by rich or poor ; if done by the most powerful corporation or 
the most influential labor union, just as much as if done by the 
humblest and least influential individual in the land. The fact that 
we heartily recognize an organization or a kind of organization as 
useful will not prevent our taking action to control it or to prevent 
its committing abuses when it uses in wrong fashion the power which 
organization confers." 

"No Congress has ever more clearly shown its practical appre- 
ciation of the fact that the welfare of the wage- workers and the wel- 



fare of the tillers of the soil make the real basis of the welfare of the 
nation as a whole. We will do everything that can be done to further 
the interests of the farmer and the wage-worker, and this declaration 
is subject only to one reservation — which is, that for no man, and no 
body of men, will we do anything that is wrong. Our constant aim 
is to do justice to every man, and to treat each man as by his own 
action he shows that he deserves to be treated." 

"We stand unequivocally for a protective tariff, and we feel that 
the phenomenal industrial prosperity which we are now enjoying is 
not lightly to be jeopardized; for it would be to the last degree fool- 
ish to secure here and there a small benefit at the cost of general 
business depression. But whenever a given rate or schedule becomes 
evidently disadvantageous to the nation because of the changes which 
go on from year' to year in our conditions, and where it is feasible to 
change this rate or schedule without too much dislocation of the 
system, it will be done, while a general revision of the rates and 
schedules will be undertaken whenever it shall appear to the sober 
business sense of our people that on the whole the benefits to be 
derived from making such changes will outweigh the disadvantages — 
that is, when the revision will do more good than harm." 

"The question of revising the tariff stands wholly apart from the 
question of dealing with the so-called 'trusts' — that is, with the con- 
trol of monopolies and with the supervision of great wealth in busi- 
ness, especially in corporate form. The only way in which it is pos- 
sible to deal with those trusts and monoplies and this great corpora- 
tive wealth is by action along the line of the laws enacted by the 
present Congress and its immediate predecessors. The cry that the 
problem can be met by any changes in the tariff represents, whether 
con.sciously or unconsciously, an effort to divert the public attention 
from the only method of taking effective action." 

"The previous Congress, by the enactment of the Elkins law and 
by the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor, including 
the Bureau of Corporations, had enabled us to make great strides in 
advance along the path of thus bringing the use of wealth in business 
under the supervision and regulation of the National Government; 
for in actual practice it has proved a sham and pretense to say that 
the several States can thus supervise and regulate it. The strides 
taken by the present Congress have been even longer in the right 
direction. The enactment of the pure food bill and the passage of 
the bill which rendered efifective the control of the Government over 
the meat packing industries are really along the same general line 
as the passage of the inter-state commerce law and are second only 
to it in importance." 



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'' To advance education and industry is to encourage tz.'o of the 
mightiest factors in ihe upbuilding of any race. Your advance has 
been acconipIisJicd against tremendous obstacles, one of the greatest 
difficulties be-ing prejudice.— Hon. CHARLES IF. FAIRBANKS. 




Vice-President of the United States. 



Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks,, Republican of Indianapolis, Ind., was 
born on a farm near Unionville Center', Union County, Ohio, May ii, 
1852; was educated in the common schools of the neighborhood and 
at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, graduating from 
that institution in 1872 in the classical course ; was admitted to the 
bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1874; removed to Indianapolis, 
Ind., in the same year, where he practiced his profession until he was 
elected to the United States Senate January 20, 1897 ; took his seat 
March 4, 1897; was re-elected 1903; was unanimously nominated by 
the Chicago convention in 1904 for Vice-President of the United 
States, and was elected on the ticket with Theodore Roosevelt, re- 
ceiving ^^j of the 476 electoral votes. 

He has been a consistent, energetic and active Republican, and 
has never failed to answer his party's call to duty; his opinions on 
public questions have been given gfeat weight and careful considera- 
tion in the councils of his party; his speech-making tour in 1904, for 
the success of the Republican candidates in National, State, and Muni- 
cipal elections, won for him the praise of Republicans high in the 
councils of the party, and the esteem and plaudits of the rank and file. 



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" The Republican party has followed the teachings in the parable 
of the zvise servant zvho returned to his mast'cr the talent intrusted 
to his care multiplied tenfold.— Hon. JOSEPH G. CANNON, Illinois. 




Hon. Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, 
Speaker, House of Representatives. 



E^jctract^ from Speaker Cannon*^ Speech, de- 
livered at 'Dari'Ville, III., A.u£. 16, 1906. 



"We have succeeded in making two blades of grass grow luxur- 
iantly under Republican administration where one grew feebly before 
under the Democratic administration. 

"Since the enactment of the first revenue law under Washington 
down to the .present time the periods of prosperity have been under 
protection, and the periods of adversity have been under the policy of 
fi'ee trade, or tariff for revenue only. 

"The record of the servant is his best and only certificate for 
continued employment, and the Republican party as a servant of the 
people stands to-day in this campaign squarely on its record. 



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"We have no census figures as to business conditions in 1896, 
but we have those fof 1890, igoo and 1905, and to supplement these 
we have the official message of President Cleveland, complaining that 
tniparalleled business distress and lack of confidence marked the greater 
rart of his administration. We also have the official statement of 
Samuel Gompers, as president of the American Federation of Labor, 
that more than 3,000,000 workingmen were without work in 1894 and 
1805, and that work did not return to them until 1897. 

'■'The prosperity that has come to the country under the Dingley 
law has not been spasmodic nor sectional, except that it has produced 
greater extension of manufacturing into the central, western and 
southern states. 

"The industrial census of 1905 shows and demonstrates that under 
the economic policy of the Republican party, with its steady and pros- 
perous development, ouf manufacturing has steadily advarced into 
the great agricultural sections, placing the factory beside the farm, to 
make the exchange between the two great bodies of producers the 
more direct and equitable and make them mor'e dependent upon each 
other. 

''Ill the rapid development of the country we not only live better 
tlian other people, but from the savings of pr'oduction we have become 
the wealthiest nation on earth. 

"I have no hesitation in saying that the present revenue law, known 
as the Dingley law, all things considered, is the most perfect and just 
customs i^evenue law ever enacted. 

"The power of the courts to issue writs of injunction to prevent 
irreparable injury to property or to a property right for which there 
is no adequate remedy at law, is older than the Constitution, and 
as well established as any other principle of law or equity. The in- 
alienable right oif each citizen, be he weak or strong, is to come and 
go to and from his property without molestation, and to carry on 
business thereon, and, in the exercise of such right, he is entitled to 
call upon the government for protection through the courts. 

"The record of trust prosecutions and investigations into their 
practices is too long to here recite, but it is acknowledged to be most 
creditable, even by our political opponents. 

"The decrease in the wages of labor alone pending revision Avill 
amount to many hundred million dollars. Where there is confidence 
and prosperity without precedent there would be doubt and destruction 
of confidence. 

■'We are willing to stand by the record and trust to the intelli- 
gence of the people as to whether they will continue this record of 
prosperity and wise regulation of abuses, or accept the preachings and 
promises of the demagogue." 




Hon. Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa, Hon. George B. Corteeyou oi N. Y. 
Secretary, U. S. Treasury. Postmaster General. 




Hon. William H. Taft of Ohio, Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte of Md. 
Secretary of War. Secretary of the Navy- 



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" The worth of a promise is properly judged only by performance, 
I ask you to compare Democratic promises zvifh Republican perform- 
ances."— Hon. WILLIAM H. TAFT, Secretary of War. 



Fulfillment of ^Republican T^romt^es Should 

A^^ure Succe^^ in the Con^re^^ional 

E^lection. 



The contest between the RepLiblican and the Democratic parties 
for control of the House of Representatives, is rapidly approaching. 
Since the Presidential election in November, 1904, when Theodore 
Roos'evelt defeated Alton B. Parker, by an unprecedented electoral 
and popular vote, by carrying every State in the Union that believes 
in "An honest ballot and a fair count," the prosperity that existed 
throughout the country under Republican policies since Cleveland's 
administration has increased in phenomenal proportions. The wheels 
of industry are turning night and day; the demand for labor is greater 
than the supply; the wage scale has reached the highest point in the 
history of labor; the differences between capital and labor have been 
amicably adjusted by arbitration; the enforcement of the anti-trust 
law, which the Republican party placed upon the statute book, and the 
Democratic party failed^ to enforce ; the enactment of new legislation 
for the regulation of trusts and vast combinations of capital ; a firm 
and progressive foreign policy; the promotion of efficiency and the 
improvement of the personnel of the land and naval forces of the 
country ; the settlement of the Russo-Japanese war in a manner that 
won for the President the plaudits of the World, together with the 
consummation of the plans and the beginning of the actual construc- 
tion of the great inter-oceanic waterway, the Panama Canal, deserve 
the unqualified support of the voters' at the Congressional election for 
the Republican candidates. Everywhere from the farmhouse to the 
palatial residence of the millionaire you can see with the slightest ob- 
servation signs of an increasing prosperity. Although confronted by 
this record, the Democratic candidates and campaign orators, will ad- 
vise the voters in the coming "battle oif ballots" to defeat Republicans 
and elect Democrats. By what method of reasoning will the election 
of a Democratic House be advantageous to the financial, commercial, 
farming and industrial interests that are reaping the benefits from the 
unbroken wave of Republican prosperity, that rolls continuously across 
the country? There is every reason wh}^ the voters should return a 
House of the same political faith as the President and the Senate; 



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one that would work harmoniously with the administration, and not 
one that would antagonize for partisan purposes, the enactment of 
legislation which would ultimately pr'ove beneficial to the people. The 
enactment of the recommendations made to the Congress by the Presi- 
dent and the ready application and enforcement by the Chief Executive 
of the railroad rate, pure food, meat inspection, free alcohol, consular 
reform, employer's' liability, and naturalization laws ; the enactment 
preventing inter-state traffic in injurious foods and medicines and the 
enforcement o.f various other measures of equal importance to the 
welfare, health and prosperity of the people, by the utilization of evt;ry 
governmental agency at his command, deserve the further indorsement 
of the President and the Republican party. 

J^egro 'Dominalion. 

The Democratic cry of "Negro Domination" will undoubtedly 
make its appearance in the Congressional election, as it has in deter- 
mining results in the last decade in the municipal and state elections 
in the Southern States. 

The political strategists of the Democratic party always resort to 
the cry of "Negro Domination," whenever the success of the Demo- 
cratic party in the South is threatened by Republican invasion. 
Having successfully operated this appeal in the States south of Mason 
and Dixon's line, they will probably inject the race issue into the Con- 
gressional campaign, as they did in the last Presidential election, for the 
express purpose of arraying the whites against the blacks in 
the Northern, Eastern and Western States, and detracting the atten- 
tion of the voters from the real issues of the campaign. However, it 
remains to be seen whether the sane and safe people of the Northern, 
Eastern and Western States will be made the victims of such a nefar- 
ious scheme, and retard the unparalleled prosperity that is pervading 
the country under the administration of President Roosevelt and the 
Republican party by defeating the Republican candidates for Congress. 

Labor. 

The efforts made by President Roosevelt in the past to give the 
wage-workers remedial legislation for grievances that had not been 
remedied deserve the indorsement of the administration by the voters 
in the Fall election. The President has been the • consistent 
friend of labor, having advocated her claims and enforced her rights. 
As a member of the Assembly of New York, as Governor of New 
York, and as President of the United States his record will reveal 
tliat he has not only recommended the enactment of laws for the bene- 
fit of labor; but voted for them in his legislative capacity, and ap- 
proved and enforced them in his executive capacity. 




Hon. Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio, Hon. Stephen B. Elkins of W. Va. 
United States Senator. United States Senator. 




Hon. Boies Penrose of Pa., 
United States Sena'^vr. 



Hon. Wilijam Warner of Mo. 
United States Senator. 



"A national government zvhich has not the power within itself to 
pro.tect i:s own membership, and to have some control over their elec- 
tion, is as weak as zvater and can not very 'long endure. — 

Senator S. M CUILOM of Illinois. 



The Grand Old Partjr, the Colored 
Mo,ris Friend. 

T'ROG'RBSr^ or THE 'RACB. 

The achievements of the colored race from the birth of the Repub- 
lican party to its golden anniversary, is deserving of admiration. 
From the importation of fhe colored man into. America, tO' the signing 
of the Emancipation Proclamation by the immortal Lincoln, he was 
subjected to the most inhuman and barbarous treatment ever conceived 
by man. It was the institution of slavery that existed for nearly two 
hundred and fifty years, that strengthened the oppressor and weakened 
the oppressed; that enriched the former and impoverished the latter; 
that made one indolent and the other thrifty; that recognized one as 
man and the other as chattel, and that continued its operations until 
they extended so far' beyond the bounds of human toleration, that a 
formidable conflict between man and man was precipitated, which ter- 
minated in the severing of the shackles and the triumph of liberty. 
From a chattel, the victims of oppression struggled until the sun- 
light of freedom, brought about by the termination of the Civil War in 
favor of the Union, forced its penetrating rays into the hearts of four 
million descendants of African blood, guaranteeing to them beyond a 
peradventure, the opportunity to acquire the prerequisites of civilization 
and the political equality of man which will inevitably prevail. 

The glorious victory of right over wrong and of the just over the 
unjust, was brought about by the magnanimous efforts of the champions 
of human liberty, who were the founders of the Republican party. 
vSince the liberation of the colored man he has been constantly ascend- 
ing the heights of civilization, in every avenue where he has been 
given an opportunity, which plainly emphasizes beyond contradiction, 
that he is as capable of developing his faculties and mastering the 
various professions and trades, with the same degree of apLitude and 
perfection as individuals of other races. 

The rapid progress of the colored race through the aid of the 
Republican party, excels the material, educational and moral advance- 
ment of any race in the annals of history. It was through tiie efforts 
of the Republican party, that the colored man was given the right to 
exercise the highest and most sacred duty that one could discharge 
in behalf of his country, and that was the right to defend it from the 



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violence of its own citizens, or from invasion by a foreign foe ; it was 
the Republican party that gave him the freedom of the ballot, which 
clothed him with the armor of citizenship and gave him a powerful 
and unrestricted voice in the affairs of the Nation ; it was the Repub- 
lican party that appointed colored citizens to offices of honor and trust, 
and promoted colored privates in the United States Army to be com- 
missioned ofificers ; it was by legislation enacted by Republican Con- 
gresses and approved by Republican Presidents, that the laws which 
have been beneficial to us have been recorded in the statutes, over the 
persistent opposition of the Democratic party. 

The Democratic party in the Northern, Eastern and Western 
States and close congressional districts, is as firmly intrenched in 
its opposition to the colored citizen acquiring manhood rights and 
advancing above the grade of menial servitude as the Democratic 
party of the Southern States, notwithstanding it may accord the 
colored voter a few favors, give him a minor appointment and treat 
him with a semblance of equality; but that is only done for the pur- 
pose of getting his vote on election day. After its candidates are 
elec'.ed to the House of Representatives, you will find their votes on 
all measures intended to benefit the colored man recorded whh the 
Southern wing of their party, which is uncompromisingly opposed to 
th€ colored citizen exercising the rights that are guaranteed to 
American citizens by the Constitution of the United States. 





Hon. Chester I. Long of Kans., 
United States Senator. 



Hon. J. Frank Allee, of Del. 
United S^tates Senator. 



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"Tlie record of the present Republican Congress confirms in tJie 
most convincing zvay the claim alzvays justly made for the Republican 
party tha,t it is an efficient party for the accomplishment of p^ood that 
it does things and that it carries out its promises." 

Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War. 



Bjciracts _from the S'peech of 

Hon. William H. Tafi, Secretary of War^ 

'Dati'Oeredat Greensboro, JV. C, July 9, 1906. 

''The South has been kept soHd by the specter of negro domination 
.and by stirring up racial prejudices and arousing unfounded alarm over 
an impossible return of reconstruction days. After a long struggle, 
the history of which I shall not repeat, the negro's vote was made to 
count for nothing in the Southern States. Then the political leaders 
of the dominant party came to realize the dreadful demoralization of 
all society that followed in a government if law was flouted, and fraud 
was to constitute its basis. 

"They cast about to make the law square with the existing con- 
dition by property and educational qualifications which should exclude 
the negro. They adopted amendments to state constitutions, with the 
so-called 'grandfather clauses,' intended to apply the new qualifica- 
tions to the negro, and not to apply them to the whites. 

" It is impossible to frame a law establishing an educational quali- 
iication for suffrage which will stand the test of the fifteenth amend- 
ment, and which will not ultimately operate, no matter what the quali- 
fication or present effect, to exclude impartially the negroes and whites 
from the ballot who lack educational acquirement. Government is 
established to secure the greatest good for the greatest number. 

"A popular government attains this end, because it is undoubtedly 
true that in the long run the rights and happiness of every person and 
every class are much more likely to be secured and safely guarded by 
the laws of the country and enforced by the executive, if the voice of 
every person or class is given an opportunity to be heard in the adop- 
tion of the laws or the selection of the executive. 

" It takes a long time to convince the white people of the South, 
intelligent, clear-headed and energetic as they are, that the cry of 
negro domination, so often raised by politicians among them, is merely 
for the purpose of solidifying their vote on the Democratic side and 
has no real justification in fact, 

"Had they kept up with the times, had they at the ballot box ex- 
pressed their real sentiments on the living issues of the day instead of 
allowing themselves to be frightened by a specter and a shadow of 
the past, their political importance as communities and the significance 



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of their views, upon measures and men would have been vastly en- 
hanced. 

"Carried in the pocket of the Democratic party for reasons which 
long ago lost their force, why should any attention be paid by either 
party to their views in national matters as compared with the views 
of the voters in the north, whom each party hopes to attract to its 
support on living modern issues in the great national elections ? 

"^The difliculty with the Democratic party and the reason why the 
American people thus far have manifested their distrust of it is be- 
cause it has no policy which the country can depend upon. Its whole 
stock in trade is that of irresponsiible criticism and obstruction, but 
when charged with the responsiblity for doing anything, it utterly 
fails. It is made up of elements so incongruous that when called upon 
to take affirmative action it lacks the cohesiveness necessary for the 
purpose. It is a party of negation and inefficiency. In the last forty 
years it has made but one effort at constructive statesmanship. It 
attempted the passage of a bill to show the benefit of the principle, 
* A tariff for revenue only.' The r'esult was a botch, conforming 
neither to free trade nor protective principles, repudiated and spat up- 
on by its own party head and destructive to the business interests of 
the country." 




Hon. John H. Edwards of Ohio, 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. 



"In Union there is Sfrengtii "^ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



" United We Stand, Vt-Vided We Fall." 

Appeal to the Colored X^oter^ to 
'Ratty Around the President 



Awaken to the crisis and help to save the House. Millions of 
souls in the Southland appeal to the colored voters in the Northern, 
East''rn and Western States to vote for the Republican candidates for 
the House of Representatives, in their respective Congressional dis- 
tricts, and strengthen the arm of the President in his efforts to give 
the people of the country, rich and poor, white and black, a "Square 
Deal." 

The condit:on of the colored man in the South remains unchanged, 
the friction between the races is as prevalent as ever, and they are 
subjected to the most ignominious laws that could be enacted in the 
"Land of the Free" and the "Home of the Brave." They call upon 
you, who have not been made the victims of political ostracism, to 
hearken to their appeal and supplication, and aid them in their long 
and persistent struggle for the procurement of their Constitutional 
rights, as an integral part of the American body politic 

A great many of the advocates and friends of the race have an- 
nounced from the rostrum, the stump and through the press, that the 
more we endeavor to equip ourselves with the essentials of citizen- 
ship, the less the magnitude of the. friction growing out of our pfe- 
vious condition of servitude will be. But to the contrary, from daily 
occurrences and observations in the various walks of life, we are 
confronted with the horrible spectacle of an increased opposition as 
we become enlig'htened and advanced in the elements of good citizen- 
ship. 

Every State in the Union has enacted penal statutes, in common 
parlance, for the punishment of criminals, but in legal phraseology to 
deter the violation of the law. The Southern States have gone a step 
farther and enacted laws that are aimed directly at the decent, re- 
spectable and law-abiding colored people, who are taking advantage of 
every available opportunity to become valuable acquisitions to the com- 
munity at large. The disfranchisement and " Jim Crow " car laws, 
were placed on the statute books of the various Southern States, by the 
legislatures, for the specific purpose of stamping the colored citizens 



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with the badge of inferiority, subjecting them to humiliation and em- 
barrassment, and making them the targets of ridicule, hatred and 
contempt, for the rising generation of whites. 

This abominable condition of aflairs must be offset by the colored 
voters who exercise the right of suffrage, many of whom have here- 
tofore affiliated with and supported the candidates of the democratic 
party in municipal, state, and national elections, or remained at home 
on election day, without giving the condition of their people in the 
South the serious consideration which it deserves. The colored people 
in the South want Republicans elected to the House af Representatives, 
a"d every colored voter in the North should vote to send a Republican 
there in the November election. 

Rally to Roosevelt and the Republican candidate of your district ! 
Rally to the cause of your race with the vigor and determination that 
Crispus Attucks displayed in Revolutionary days ; that your grand- 
fathers and fathers exhibited with Sherman, on his march from Atlanta 
to the Sea; with Sheridan through the bloody valley of the Shenan- 
doah ; with McKinley at Antietam ; with the Union forces at Fort 
Pillow, Fort Wagner, Milliken's Bend, Petersburg, Seven Pines, 
Okistee, and many other engagements for the freedom of the colored 
man and the pre.'^ervation of the Union, and with Roosevelt the hero of 
the Spanish-American War, in a foreign clime against a foreign foe, 
for the glory of the flag, the integrity of the Nation, and the alleviation 
of the condition of oppressed humanity. 




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"The cause of my people is my cause, thieir struggles my struggles. 
I would not ^separate myself from my race; I am content to suffer 
affliction with them." 

Hon. W. T. Vernon. 




Hon. William T. Vernon, of Kansas, 
Register of the United States Treasury. 



E,j<tracts _from an Address 'Deti'Vered in the 
State Capitol, TopeKa, Kans., Entitled, — 

A VleaJ^or Stispenston of Jxxdgmert't, 

-By Hon. W. T. VKKJVOJV. 



"When England, proud, victorious mistress of the seas, sought to 
undo that at which your ancestors for near two centuries wrought, 
England failed. And why? Your bravery and love for God and 
home and native land, inspired by the spirit your race always knew 
to know no masters, made you free. Then by your side on Boston 
Clcmmons our Attucks died, at Bunker Hill was Salem, at Yorktown, 
when to Washington was handed the sword of Cornwallis, Negro 
slaves, too, stood at parade rest, believing that in rome far-off day their 



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•children's children would know the freedom which that day came to 
you and yours. 

"With Perry at Lake Erie, with Jackson at New Orleans my 
people died. And why? In them was the stuff that heroes make, and 
they were led by heroes. 

''From American soil a spirit sprang which quickened all it 
touched. It Siwept the air even in cane brake, cotton patch and rice 
swamp. It made of slaves men who knew no fear if duty called. 

"And what more shall I say? For time vvould fail me to tell of 
Wagner, Petersburg, and of our work on sea and land from '6i to '65, 
when we ceased to fight as serfs, but, fighting as only free men can, 
pr'oved that the Providence which sent us here had 'for its purpose 
the preserving of a nation's life as w^ell as the giving of a higher life 
to us. 

"In peace the same devotion gave we to those whom we served. 
We delved in earth, we 'tunneled mountains, we diked and stayed the 
wave-dashed sea carrying all of nature's, power, we felled the trees in 
-forests primeval, we changed the course of winding river, w'e leveled 
"hills and tilled the fields, we gathered stores in barn and bin, we 
wrought in mine and drew the load, the burden bearers we were. If 
aboriginee or wild beast attack were threatened, we watched at day 
or night, and still if wanted at toil men had but to look at spreading 
fields, at either dawn or fading twiliglit, and we were there. We broke 
no faith ; we betrayed no trust. 

"But way down there where wrong still is, where peonage, scourg- 
ing-s, burnings, yet go on, there are black lips mute with suffering, 
anguished souls with outstretched arms appealing, grateful for what 
the past has been and praying relief from burdens that still oppress. 
We again look to the Republican party for relief, and I do not be- 
lieve we look in vain. I know no other party, nor should my people, 
■for throug'h it justice will finally be ours. 

"This party enfranchised us, and though as yet illy prepared for 
so vast a step, of two evils this was by far the less. For until the 
leaders of the Republican party legislated otherwise, the ex-masters 
were passing laws making our condition more intolerable than that 
of slavery. 

"\V> have not all succeeded, many have failed as must necessarily 
•obtain in the case of a once enslaved race, but there are many who have 
: striven and successfully so. 

" The Emancipation Proclamation could not suddenly rid us of all 
that centuries of slavery and barbarism had left. Ours, must be 
:a growth. And by patient toil and continued effort on our part with 
your sympathy and aid, this country will finally see- a rightful solution 
'Of the difficulties which confront us. 



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"Opposition spurs us onward, you pointed the way and led in the 
darker days, and undaunted and determined, even with torn hands, 
bheding- feet, and anguished souls, to the heights we are going. For 
near three hundred years we've sung the sorrow songs. We shall yet 
sing the songs oi rejoicing and triumph. As the Danes destroyed the 
hearing of their war horses that they might not be affrighted, in battle, 
so will we turn a deaf ear to all that would discourage us. In the 
darkest hours we hear the voice of the best of that which makes 
American life glorious saying, "Onward, f reedmen ! Onward ! Onward, 
struggling race, we are with you !" And with braver hearts and 
firmer tread we gird ourselves for the journey and press on our way. 

"We aspire, as do you. The loftier things of soul, the upward 
stres.s wdiich has upborne the Aryan race to the place it so proudly 
holds among the people of earth, we also feel. 

"Wound us and we bleed; fatally so and we die; crush our 
spirits, and our hearts ache and with anguished souls we suffer on. 
We are not strangers to natural affection. It is not as mere imitators 
that we also stand for' a tearful interval where earth opes briefly that 
it may close forever above the forms of those we love. We, as do 
30U, with anxious eyes and straining ears look and list toward the 
awesome mystery which lies beyond, and as do you, claim sonship with 
God and brotherhood with the Savior of mankind. And with such 
evidence of good cheer and helpfulness before me I dare to claim for 
Afric's sons the loftiest destiny which anywhere waits other souls. 

" Men who forty years ago fought for the freedom of the black 
man, and their sons who fought that Cuba might be free, men, even of 
other parties who believe in right, followed the lead of this man of 
mighty purpose, mighty heart and mighty brain, whose Christ-like 
doctrine is not black men down and white men up, but rather no men 
down and all men, up, and who closes the door of hope in the face of 
no man, and would have all rise. This man, scholar, reformer, writer, 
soldier, diplomat, statesman, leader of men, just, humane, best of his 
kind, the property of the oppressed of earth, the hope of the future, 
the one dreamed of by those who have died in a martyr cause, in- 
vincible because right, invulnerable because sent of God, the latter day 
Savior of my people for whom black heroes died in Cuba that he might 
live and save their race, this man — Theodore Roosevelt — spoke out, 
and America, indorsing Roosevelt, this orgtuiization and our party, 
says to the world, " We will suspend judgment and give these people 
lime.'' And this was and is all we ask. And I pledge you we will not 
disappoint you. 

"The tide has turned. The nobler sons of America have said to 
the waves of persecution and racial strife — "Thus far and no- 
farther." 




Hon. John H. Deveaux, 
Collector of Customs, Port of Saiannah, 



Ga. 



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SKetch of Hon. John H. De-Veaujfc. 



Hon. John H. Deveaux, of Georgia, Collector of the Port of 
Savannah, has been a life-long and active Republican. He has figured 
conspicuously in State and National politics, having held many 
prominent positions of honor and trust under the Federal government. 
He has been a delegate to National Republican Conventions from the 
State cif Georgia for many years, and is widely known by the leaders 
of the Republican party and persons of prominence throughout the 
country. 

He was appointed Collector o^f the Port of Brunswick, 
Georgia, by President Harrison; was appointed Collector" of the Port 
■of Savannah, Georgia, by President McKinley and re-appointed by 
President Roosevelt. He is Secretary of the Republican State Cen- 
tral Committee of Georgia. He was commissioned a Colonel of the 
Georgia State Militia, by an act of the legislature of the State of 
Georgia. 



SKe^ch oy Hon. Robert SmalU. 



Hon. Robert Smalls, of Beaufort, S. C, the "Hero of the 
Plantei"," is one of the best known men in this country. During the 
Civil War, he and three others, namely, William Morrison, (sailor',) 
John Smalls, (sailor,) and A. Gradine, (engineer,) ran off with the 
Confederate war steamed, "Planter,'' while the white officers were 
ashore in Charleston, S. C. 

They passed Fort Sumter and delivered the vessel and its valu- 
able cargo of munitions of war to the United Sfates authorities. On 
account of the daring exploit, a special act of Congfess was passed 
ordering one-haLf of the value of the captured vessel to be invested 
in United States bonds, and the interest to be paid annually to them or 
their heirs. Robert Smalls, who piloted the vessel successiully over 
her voyage, subsequently joined the Union Army, where he distm- 
guished himself for bravery and meritorious conduct. After the war 
he became active and prominent in politics. 

He served several terms as a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, from South Carolina, and has , held many positions of 
honor, trust and prominence under the Federal government. He has 
been collector of the Port of Beaufort, S. C, fof several administra- 
tions, and was re-appointed by President Roosevelt. He has been 
a conspicuous figure in State and National politics since the war, 
and ha.i been elected a delegate from the State of South Carolina 
to National Republican Conventions, for nearly lialf a century. 




Hon. Robert Smalls, 
Collector of Cusioins, Port of Beaufort, S. C. 



TOLITIGAL. 

Negr'o population and vote in States where disfranchisement laws 
have not been enacted and where the negro vote is a factor in the 
solution of the political equation. 

Coinparative. 

Negro Negro White White 

States. population vote population vote 

1900. 1900. 1900. 1900. 

Massachusetts 3i,974 10,456 2,769,764 830,049 

Rhode Island 9,092 2,765 419,050 124,001 

Conjnecticut 15,226 4,576 892,424 275,126 

New York 99-232 31,425 7,156,881 2,145,057 

New Jersey 69,844 21,474 I,8i2'.3i7 532,750 

Pennsylvania 156,845 51,668 6,141,664 1,763,482 

Delaware 30,697 8,374 153,977 45,592 

Maryland 235,064 60,406 952424 260,979 

Ohio 96,901 31,235 4,060,204 i.,i8o,599 

Indiana 57,505 18,186 2,458,502 701.761 

Illinois • 85,078 29,762 4,734,873 1,370,209 

Michigan 15,816 5,193 2,398,563 712,245 

Iowa 12,693 4,441 2,218,667 630,655 

Missouri 161,234 46,418 2,944,843 809,797 

Kansas 52,003 14,695 1,416,319 398,552 

Nebraska 6,269 2,298 1,056,526 297,817 

Colorado 8,570 3,215 529,046 181,616 

California 11,045 3,7ii 1.402,727 489,545 

Kentucky 284,706 74,728 . 1,862,309 469,206 

West Virginia 43,499 i4,786 915.233 233,129 

Tennessee 480,243 112,236 ' 1,540,186 375,046 



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Reilly Around Roosevelt! 

The World's Peacemaker; the People's 

Champion; the Apostle of the 

"Square Destl" Doctrine, 

the "Door of Hope/* Policy, 

and the theory 

"All Men Up, Rather Than Some 

Men Down." 



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